@ghostofaformerself continued from here~
THERESA GIVES THE BRUNETTE A small and kind of sad-looking smile. “I’ll live,” she said simply. “Just a skinned knee, it’ll heal.” She tugged up the skirt of her dress a little, showing off said skinned knee. It had already stopped bleeding, but it was going to have to be cleaned. “Don’t worry about me. I am SO SORRY about your car though.” There was something resembling ACTUAL remorse in her voice. It was a really pretty car and a part of her did feel a little bad for denting it. But she needed a way to get closer to the detective.
“I eh… As I said, I will pay for everything.” She weakly motioned towards the dents. “Do you… Will it be expensive? I don’t know a lot about cars.” She ran her hand across the saddle of her bike. “I’m more of a bike girl,” she added with a chuckle that had some nervous energy to it. It really did seem like she felt bad for what had happened, and she was quite proud of herself.
“How about this…” She started, turning her bike around and starting to chain it to a bike rack in front of the building the car was parked in front of. “There’s this AMAZING coffee shop right around the corner from here…” She motioned in the direction of where it was. “Allow me to buy you a cup of coffee and… and some PIE. Everyone loves pie, right? And we’ll exchange information or whatever you do in a situation like this…” Her brow furrowed. “That IS what you do in a situation like this, right? I’ve never had this happen to me before…”